If verified, the Argentine hailstone would surpass the U.S. The Weather Channel’s Chris Dolce has a summary of the event, which has been documented in a February paper for the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society entitled “ Gargantuan Hail in Argentina.” The authors propose that hailstones larger than 6” in diameter be classified as “gargantuan”. ![]() Recently, an investigation into a hailstorm that took place in Villa Carlos Paz, Cordoba Province, Argentina on February 8, 2018, reported that a hailstone some 9.3 inches in diameter may have fallen during a storm there. The hail in this photograph, however, drifted this deep after floodwaters washed it into these giant heaps in a low-lying area. Above: Hail can accumulate to remarkable depths when a storm becomes stationary over one place for a period of time.
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